Dr. Olga Vladimirovna Voitsekhovskaja is the head of the Laboratory of Ecological and Molecular Physiology, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soils of the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants, St. Petersburg State University, and completed postgraduate study at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Her research interests include the physiology and biochemistry of plants, botany, molecular biology, etc.